From 871b5ab4e44a7bd7c88d783ff225fbc509f1ea64 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Hector Jimenez <hectorjimenez@outlook.com>
Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2025 14:13:23 -0700
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] :P

---
 .../src/core/GamepadUtils.ts                  | 22 +++++++++++++++++++
 .../src/hooks/useGamepadNavigation.ts         | 12 ++++++----
 2 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/packages/react-gamepad-navigation/src/core/GamepadUtils.ts b/packages/react-gamepad-navigation/src/core/GamepadUtils.ts
index 9e62369e5..bf6ebae78 100644
--- a/packages/react-gamepad-navigation/src/core/GamepadUtils.ts
+++ b/packages/react-gamepad-navigation/src/core/GamepadUtils.ts
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 import { WindowWithFluentGPNShadowDOMAPI } from '../types/FluentGPNShadowDOMAPI';
+import { consolePrefix } from './Constants';
 
 export type TimeoutId = number | undefined;
 export type IntervalId = number | undefined;
@@ -32,3 +33,24 @@ export const getShadowDOMAPI = (targetDocument: Document | undefined) => {
     ?.__FluentGPNShadowDOMAPI;
   return shadowDOMAPI;
 };
+
+export const isGamepadAPISupported = (
+  targetView: Window | null
+): targetView is Window => {
+  let api = null;
+  try {
+    if (
+      targetView?.navigator &&
+      typeof targetView.navigator.getGamepads === 'function'
+    ) {
+      api = targetView.navigator.getGamepads();
+    }
+  } catch {
+    console.warn(
+      consolePrefix,
+      'Failed to execute "getGamepads" on "Navigator": Access to the feature "gamepad" is denied'
+    );
+  }
+
+  return api !== null;
+};
diff --git a/packages/react-gamepad-navigation/src/hooks/useGamepadNavigation.ts b/packages/react-gamepad-navigation/src/hooks/useGamepadNavigation.ts
index f48456aae..567124659 100644
--- a/packages/react-gamepad-navigation/src/hooks/useGamepadNavigation.ts
+++ b/packages/react-gamepad-navigation/src/hooks/useGamepadNavigation.ts
@@ -4,7 +4,11 @@ import { GamepadState } from '../types/Keys';
 import { consolePrefix } from '../core/Constants';
 import { isSyntheticMouseEvent } from '../core/GamepadEvents';
 import { getGamepadMappings } from '../core/GamepadMappings';
-import { getShadowDOMAPI, IntervalId } from '../core/GamepadUtils';
+import {
+  getShadowDOMAPI,
+  IntervalId,
+  isGamepadAPISupported,
+} from '../core/GamepadUtils';
 import {
   isPollingEnabled,
   setDefaultInputMode,
@@ -27,9 +31,9 @@ export const getGamepadStates = (): Map<number, GamepadState> => gamepadStates;
 
 // Gamepad polling
 const updateGamepadState = (targetDocument: Document) => {
-  const targetView = targetDocument.defaultView;
   let nextGamepads: (Gamepad | null)[] = [];
-  if (targetView?.navigator && targetView.navigator.getGamepads) {
+  const targetView = targetDocument.defaultView;
+  if (isGamepadAPISupported(targetView)) {
     nextGamepads = targetView.navigator.getGamepads();
   }
   const nextGamepadStates = new Map<number, GamepadState>();
@@ -230,7 +234,7 @@ export const useGamepadNavigation = (options: GamepadNavigationOptions) => {
      * we look through the window.navigator's current gamepads and add those to our list to start.
      */
     const targetView: Window | null = targetDocument.defaultView;
-    if (targetView?.navigator && targetView.navigator.getGamepads) {
+    if (isGamepadAPISupported(targetView)) {
       const gamepadsList = targetView.navigator.getGamepads();
 
       for (const gamepad of gamepadsList) {

From b93304053953f7d63b2c767eefb5253fafd3f8bb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Hector Jimenez <hectorjimenez@outlook.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2025 13:49:52 -0700
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Change files

---
 ...ad-navigation-3d6c4782-c7de-41ef-ba41-b1a1e69ab0a3.json | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 change/@fluentui-contrib-react-gamepad-navigation-3d6c4782-c7de-41ef-ba41-b1a1e69ab0a3.json

diff --git a/change/@fluentui-contrib-react-gamepad-navigation-3d6c4782-c7de-41ef-ba41-b1a1e69ab0a3.json b/change/@fluentui-contrib-react-gamepad-navigation-3d6c4782-c7de-41ef-ba41-b1a1e69ab0a3.json
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..2b91bbce7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/change/@fluentui-contrib-react-gamepad-navigation-3d6c4782-c7de-41ef-ba41-b1a1e69ab0a3.json
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+{
+  "type": "patch",
+  "comment": "fix(react-gamepad-navigation): handling Gamepad API access denied",
+  "packageName": "@fluentui-contrib/react-gamepad-navigation",
+  "email": "hectorjimenez@outlook.com",
+  "dependentChangeType": "patch"
+}